Black Market Prescription Drugs On The Rise
With the cost of everything skyrocketing and wages not rising to keep up, it’s no wonder that people are turning to the black market in order to get prescription drugs. There are many things you can learn to go without, but having to go without AND live in pain can be too much to ask for many folks with chronic pain conditions such as migraines and headaches.
The True Cost Of Medicine
Granted, the black market is not known for coupon days or super sales. It is generally more expensive to get anything through there than by legitamate means. However, prescription medicine is not just the cost of the drugs themselves. It’s also the cost of getting the prescription, whihc can often be more than the cost of the drugs themselves. This includes the doctor’s appointment, missing time off of work to kep the doctor’s appointment and all of the health insurance co-payments and premiums you need to shell out for so you can go to the doctor in the first place. You never need a prescription at the black market.
One fun thing about buying prescription drugs off of the street is that you don’t know what you are buying. It could be Prozac — it could be a sugar pill. Who knows? But many people are willing to take the chance. As with some tainted heparin cases prove, we tend to do the same thing with Big Pharma, anyway.
What About Drug Abusers?
Some people do take street prescription drugs for the highs (or lows) rather than for curing physical pain. Wired speculates that prescription drugs are cheaper and easier to get and just as powerful as heroin or coke. Teens abuse legal prescription drugs far more than illegal drugs.
What Can We Do?
I see three future possibilities:
1) Well, I guess it’s too much to hope for that the cost of health care would go down so that people wouldn’t think about using the black market in the first place. That would make too much sense.
2) The need to have prescriptions for medications get tossed. This would lower the cost of medication. This would also solve a lot of problems that go along with human overpopulation as well. This also would cause a sudden boom of jobs in the gravedigger or crematorium trade.
3) The governments sending everyone marijuana ice cream every week as opposed to making any health care reforms. At least, in this future, we have ice cream.
Off to take an Excedrin.
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